They've been called America's royal family. But that does them - and the country - little justice. Royals are born to their status. The Kennedys attained their status in an utterly American way, through driving ambition, hard work and, when necessary, a willingness to toss the rule book aside. The Kennedys portrays these most public of figures in their most private moments of happiness, despairs, intimacy and estrangement.